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DMX Avoids Big House, Ready to Work on New Album

DMX is one lucky dog. The trouble-magnet rapper has managed to escape the slammer for the umpteenth time.
Despite a rap sheet longer than his greatest hits list and a guilty plea to attempted aggravated assault on a corrections officer, the hip-hopster wound up getting put on probation for the next 18 months.
Maricopa County Superior Court [...]

Rapper DMX Headed for Jail on Drug, Cruelty Charge

Embattled rapper DMX faces at least 90 days in jail after pleading guilty on Tuesday to drug, theft and animal cruelty charges, Arizona prosecutors said.
The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, pleaded to three felony charges and one misdemeanor count in Maricopa County Superior Court under a deal to settle three criminal cases against him. He also agreed not [...]

DMX Arrested In Arizona Mall For Using Fake ID At Hospital

Another weekend, another trip to jail for DMX. The rapper (born Earl Simmons) was arrested at Phoenix, Arizona’s Metrocenter mall on Saturday on suspicion of giving a false name and Social Security number to the Scottsdale, Arizona, Mayo Clinic, where the 37-year-old MC went for treatment in April.
According to the Arizona Republic newspaper, X is [...]

Vick Indicted on Va. Dogfighting Charges

Michael Vick and three co-defendants were indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on state charges related to a dogfighting ring operated on Vick’s Virginia property.

Vick, who already pleaded guilty in federal court to a dogfighting conspiracy charge and is awaiting sentencing Dec. 10, was indicted on one count of beating or killing or causing dogs [...]